My husband and I, discussing our X-Men AU story and his desire to include an entity known as 3.14159...

Me: They'll call him "Pi" for short, of course.
Him: Yes, except for some smart alecks who'll call him "Twenty-two Sevenths"
Me: If by "some smartalecks" you mean "Hank."
Him: Well, yeah.

Just been very, very busy. My family, his family, my family, our friends, my family, our friends, and my family have pretty much kept every day jam packed, mostly out of town, and this past week, out of state ( Read more... )

My great-uncle Charlie started college when he was 15. He got his Master's here at LSU. I didn't know that. I wish I had. We weren't especially close; he had more grandnieces than he could shake a stick at. But he was always kind of cool, if you could handle the taste of the air around him ( Read more... )

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No, Kate, there is no possible way that a Google search will tell you where you left the goddamn medicine, so close the internet browser and keep looking!

Recently, I believe yesterday, I told someone "I do early modern intellectual history."

While I meant it in all honesty, it isn't true.
I want to do early modern intellectual history.

What I do is cry like a baby when another general European seminar paper fails for reasons that don't make any sense to me ( Read more... )

The man responsible for my first crush is dead.
Resquiescat in pace.

My husband just broke a vase playing baseball inside the house.

With the in-laws. The bustling metropolis of Erath, LA has a new stop light ( Read more... )

Got my first A in that seminar. Phew.
This weekend, after a cool lunch-with-guest-lecturer, will be All Grading, All The Time (Except when I'm Loafing). An empty house, with husband at math conference. Just me, the cat, and 140 exams.

And now, a meme.
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